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Technology doesn't make this an either-or situation, and some time reading RFCs really makes the pain of ascii obvious.

Just ask for reflowable pdf. Figures, equations, cross-references (with hyperlinks), actual typography and design, full-text search, and the ability to adapt to your viewer.

If you don't like that implementation, then may I suggest looking into improvements to the algorithm, instead of brutally stripping away content at books to fit an unnecessarily crude model?
I make (well, past-tense at the moment) almost $2k/month on a vBulletin play-by-post gaming forum I started back in 2007. One single adsense banner below the navbar.

I actually burned out within 6 months of trying to bootstrap the fledgling forum with fake activity, clever backlinks, and entertaining the trickle of registrants.

Burned out enough to take a a break for a while. Came back months later and it was a bustling forum of activity. Apparently I'd just reached that critical mass necessary for the community to be autonomous (able to entertain itself and cajole newbies to stay) before I took that break. Nowadays, I do very little beyond pay the server bill. It's staggering the amount of work volunteers (moderators) will put into maintaining a community and I'm grateful.

Recently had adsense disabled on my website after some automated process decided my website was "mature/adult-themed". The automated email cited a post in our forum's off-topic spammy section where some user copy and pasted the phrase "sexual intercourse" over and over again in Mandarin. Just some non-Mandarin-speaking teenagers being silly for a moment. Now I'm working on getting adsense reactivated.
Wercker aims to “fix” the app dev universe
Yes, that is feasible and there are real systems that take that approach (millions of them in fact - look up the architecture of the Sony Playstation 3 console if you're curious).

One problem that surfaces is that such asymmetric systems are harder to write software for, which can make them a bit unpopular.
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There's been too much effort wasted trying to find the one-size-fits-all perfect CPU scheduler for all system rules. For apps such as postgres that care enough about CPU scheduling to have written their own cpu scheduler, then it's not too much to ask the authors of such apps to make a few additional system calls to tell the kernel what type of scheduling is preferred for this app, rather then leave it all to the kernel to determine the perfect schedule for every running app.
Point taken about having to feed them once you have them.

And I agree that political donations are not a necessity, but only if donations are banned, which is not the case. If your opponents are getting donations, then you are at a net loss if you don't. In that sense, being idealistic does not get you supporters, and donations really are necessary.
Just a heads up, it looks like something is up with your CSS:

http://cl.ly/image/241X1C2D3O35

I'm on 10.8 with the latest version of safari.

In other news, this looks pretty cool.
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A preliminary injunction requires the fulfillment of 4 requirements: 1) the plaintiff will likely succeed in proving infringement, 2) the plaintiff will likely suffer irreparable harm without an injunction, 3) "the balance of equities tips in his favor", and 4) an injunction is in the public interest.

The point on which the injunction was overturned was 2); The court found that there was no causal connection between the alleged infringement and alleged harm.

In this case, Apple was seeking an injunction based on alleged infringement of a "unified search" patent, in other words, the technology that supports Siri.
I have a friend who works for ITA/Google today, and he tells me they are still using Lisp and their Lisp codebase is huge and complicated and not likely to ever be ported to another language.
Don't hope too much. The Kindle app on the Mac is horrendously bad. I mailed Bezos personally about it. The mail was acknowledged, but now, 1 year later, the app still stinks as much as before.
Are you talking about information products or paywalls or something else entirely?
> Using a solderless breadboard may add more noise, but it's much easier to assemble and correct mistakes.

Noise isn't usually the major problem with breadboards, though it is an issue. The much more troubling issue and what makes breadboards useless for a large number of circuits are the parasitics from the connections. The stray capacitance and inductance can cause large problems and even outright oscillation of even relatively low frequency circuits.
We have PCB layout (with Gerber export, which actually passes all BatchPCB or Eurocircuit DRC checks) and allow other circuits to be included as modules. I think this is a major difference as you can actually design something and have it fabricated. And the modular design flow allows you to "stand on the shoulders of giants". With the right modules, you don't need to be an expert anymore to design electronics.
Nope. It sums up all that is wrong with Firefox for me.

Chrome developer tools are just ridiculously more awesome.
The lack of clear affordances in the Microsoft design really bothers me.

* When two buttons are next to each other, do they behave as tabs, toggles or buttons with disparate behaviors? You can't tell.

* is an icon next to a field actionable? I have no idea until I try to click it.

* These buttons are very reliant on :hover to indicate behavior. That's not very useful for users on touch devices (Is the button intentionally disabled, or is it broken?)
This line may hold what you are referring to:
"custom actions that automatically publish back to Facebook as a person consumes content"

What isn't clear to me is what it means to "automatically publish" to Facebook.
Author very clearly says sloppy code is 'slop', not technical debt: Technical debt is not sloppily written code. It is clean code that is less than optimal.

If you're asking what we do with slop -- how do we categorize it in planning and do we fix as we go or do we call out a task to clean up -- that's a good question. He sort of touched on it with the Holmes-on-Homes parallel.
If it's not there, you have to enable WebGL in the about:config.

Type about:config into the browser bar.

Right click and add a new boolean:

webgl.enabled_for_all_sites

Set to true, restart firefox, and load the site again. Press ctrl+shift+I, and you should see the 3D button in the lower right corner.
Oh yes! Thats why flash has 99% penetration, because nearly everyone needs it.
Softbank said to be in talks to buy control of Sprint
Time Zone functionality in the Google Maps API
Grate spellcheckers continue two bee a major feet of software engineering.
I'm wondering about the /lack/ of submit button. I'm often tempted to remove it but I know from experience that so many people use the mouse to click on the button rather than pressing enter. What are your insights in this issue?
It's time to rethink the eco product market
iPad 1 is stuck on iOS 5, which is 17 million units according to this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad
The biggest thing I can think of is how it defaults to throwing an exception when attempting to return JSON for a GET request. You could disable this easily enough, but I never understood the rationale behind the decision, and it was a momentary frustration every single time. Hopefully they've changed that in MVC 4.
The New Yorker is pretty good now. It's available in Retina from a certain issue a few months back, too. What bothers me is that I don't have any way to make annotations, but that's what happens when you don't see a more universal framework for Newsstand magazines.
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No, it's a Romanian court.
Don't know if Wordpress will actually oblige the C&D if it comes
> "/r/ShitRedditSays is right to eliminate these communities from Reddit and shame the participants."

I really, really heavily disagree here. /r/ShitRedditSays is very much the opposite end of the spectrum from /r/creepshots (et al), and having the pendulum swing completely in the other direction is, IMO, just as bad.

Look at the content of /r/ShitRedditSays. Like, really look at it as a whole with a critical eye - you have a few truly egregious things getting called out, then you have people getting into a populist rage-fest over inane stupidity, and you also get a very large chunk of simply harassing people for going against groupthink/being controversial.

/r/ShitRedditSays is exactly the sort of censorship we don't want - i.e., an organized cabal of users who enforce their ideology on everyone else by means of harassment, ad hominem attacks, labeling, and drumming up massive populist outrage. Go up against /r/srs? Congrats, you are now a misogynistic racist gay-bashing bigot, regardless of what you actually said. Once /r/srs readers hook onto a thread all semblance of discussion stops. Silent downvotes plunge posts into oblivion with nary an explanation, combined with a litany of outraged replies, name-calling, and ad hominem attacks.

They're not the objective observers they think they are - like every other subreddit they have evolved their own groupthink and notion of what is acceptable and not, and it happens that they've settled into a fairly narrow definition of acceptable content (whereas /r/creepshots have a very very wide definition of acceptable content).

No, just no. /r/ShitRedditSays is not the solution to /r/creepshots and the like. You go from an open community with a fringe, disturbing element... to a closed community that toes the party line, or else.
Are you using a Retina Macbook?
(that was the headline in the article so I left it unchanged)

This article is one of many that raises (re-raises) the very interesting question about what is the morally correct thing to do with high resolution aerial imagery. Clearly its an intelligence asset in times of war, there was a big dust up that insurgents were getting imagery of American bases in Saudia Arabia from Google Earth, that seems pretty straight forward. But what about Area 51? What about Taiwan's radar site that monitors the space between the island and the mainland for supersonic cruise missiles that China is alleged to possess? All sorts of interesting questions.

The economics in this case work against privacy, in so much that many people are willing to pay to see something that one person doesn't want seen. Imagine that Google had a system where they could charge for viewing satellite tiles at the 1M resolution. And user's could 'bid' for access like advertisers bid for space on the search results. Now the people who are in the tile can bid for 'non access.' If 1000 people bid $1 to see Area 51 in the Nevada desert the Air Force has to bid $1001 to not show it? That wouldn't work (although it would make Google a ton of money :-)

I'm not sure what the answer is, although I know that it only gets worse with UAV's carrying 16MP digital cameras on them.
We pay for use of some map servers, and use free servers. If you have GIS server skills and soe capital, you can tile and serve the maps yourself... Lots of good free data out there.
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You mean for libre.fm?

Regardless, crowdfunding concurrently on multiple platforms an interesting proposition. I wonder if disallowed in any platform ToS?

Crowdfunding equivalent of publishing/promoting to as many platforms as possible for a given type of work.
Don't be obtuse. The primary insiders of Zynga sold like there was no tomorrow immediately after the IPO. They should have had the same lock-up period as the employees. The entire company just reeks of sleaze. You don't have to be a crackpot to notice these things.
Nice to see Zabbix getting some love, it's a good and simple monitoring system. I've already got my Zabbix install talking to Hubot, Twilio integration is next on the list. :)
OTOH, that graph sure has plateaued at around 60% for the last week. I think there is a fairly significant group of iPhone owners who just don't care about OS updates and never even notice that indicator on Settings telling you that you can update.

Or this: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/05/after-early-boom-new-number...
I agree SETI@Home is very EP. What did I say to suggest it was not?
I doubt that the lack of rounded corners is going to give anyone issues with the Metro/Modern/whatever style. The list of things with entirely rectangular buttons includes Windows prior to XP, most other older non-Mac window managers and OSes, and a vast number of real-world products like stereos and TVs. The very top thing on that link is an update basically saying it's an unresolved question: "My rounded rectangles cognitive argument is getting a good thrashing — which is a good thing. I'm as keen as anyone to find out if the theory holds water, and if you can direct me to better research, I'd love to read it. Please share!" I don't buy it, personally. Maybe the reason signs in public places have rounded corners, like the famous No Parking sign Jobs showed, is just to avoid having sharp corners for safety? Then there's stuff like the utterly-minimal rounding of Lion/Mountain Lion buttons: they'd fall pretty high on that cognitive cost scale he posits, especially compared to the Aqua ones they replaced.

The lack of hinting that one element is clickable/tappable while another is a bigger issue, though, than just rounded edges. As far as web use of this style goes, I think the arrows-in-circles (or something similar) used on the main button on this page, and on the Windows Azure site mentioned elsewhere in the comments here will be key.

WP7 is pretty good about having "buttons" be styled fairly distinctively from other elements (they're circular in the menu bar at the bottom of an app, and in other places like the "More Details" button when editing a calendar appointment they get a thick distinctive border.

When your style is minimal you need to be very careful and consistent with the meaning of what visual cues you do have, so how stuff like that will translate to the web—especially if someone just wants to make a site look "Metro" but isn't so familiar with the conventions)—is an open question.
I'm exploring Go most actively right now. Go solves some problems that I care a lot about - systems access and process composition - for which Clojure isn't as directly designed. Clojure still has the best data/function composition I think, and I do miss that in Go.
So now the PM has apologized, what ramifications does that have for Dotcom, Megaupload and the ongoing legal stuff?

Does Megaupload get all it's servers and data back, immeidately?

Are all the charges against Dotcom and Megaupload dropped?

It is now clear the American authorities broke the law, and Dotcom can pursue them?
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What do you guys think of the "personalized shopping" concept?
I didn't mean to say that it would be effortless. What I'm saying is that having the API on twitter.com can complicate twitter's web app, which should ideally be a separate service from their API. That might be a change worth making, even if it caused problems for some API users. I don't think keeping a non-versioned url at api.twitter.com would complicate things enough to justify turning it off, unless they didn't care about small API users.
Ironic, eh?
Another tempest in a teacup. Taiwan and Turkey have, for different reasons, asked Apple to blur its map images of sensitive facilities. But Apple isn't revealing confidential or secret satellite data -- the database Apple uses is by definition publicly accessible.

Anyone who wanted to get a clear picture of Taiwan's radar facility, or Turkey's prison, could go to other sources to get the same, or better, imagery. It's a little disingenuous to imagine that Chinese authorities need to consult with Apple's iOS 6 map app to discover where Taiwan's radar facility is located.

These international powers need to accept what private citizens have already reluctantly accepted: privacy is dead.
Agree. It's refreshing to see something simple and focused on the content: no images, no videos, no fancy infographics, and none of the 'bloatware' that permeates the magazine industry.

Each issue of Wired is now 500+ MB (due to the Retina displays). If you're on 3G or at a public WiFi, it probably takes more time to download than to read the 2-3 articles you're interested.

In hindsight, you wouldn't expect anything different from Marco. Really hope he succeeds.
So funny. Nice break from usual work. If you liked that, you should check out http://clientsfromhell.net/
It's completely different from Paul Graham's comments. They are very general and kind of generic comments about the future. Wolfram's talk is about computational intelligence, how it is being developed in the form of Wolfram|Alpha, and its nature.
You don't need to "support" any platform. It's a fucking blog that you have to pay for. HTTP Basic Auth and Recurly/Chargify/your favorite payment provider here and you "support" every platform in existence.

A magazine is not an 'app' and does not need to be treated as such.
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Sure! This particular way of expressing declarative structure may be specific to Clojure, but the basic ideas should be useful in any (especially dynamic) language with first-class functions.

The first idea is to take a complex system and express the set of components and their relationships declaratively, rather than procedurally. This is an old idea, and makes it possible to reason about the system, mock out components for testing, map over the components for monitoring, and more.

The second idea is simplicity. By making this declarative language as simple as possible, it becomes trivially easy to do all the things I just mentioned using the existing tools in the language, without needing to write complex library functions to support each use case.

For another example of a declarative system for composition you could look at 'react' in JS, which can be used in similar ways to Graph (and also supports things like async composition): https://github.com/jeffbski/react
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Sounds like a lot of the initial cost should be easily covered by a serial entrepreneur. There's also no talk about what the first product will be and what it is aiming to solve.
I have the same issue and i'm using a Retina MBP.
Helpful - thanks
"The people who’ve paid for us to write code (which I will call stakeholders for lack of a better term), do not want slop, even if they don’t even know what that means. They want The Feature, the Whole Feature, and Nothing But The Feature, but they don’t want it wrapped around a pile of shit. And you know it."

They also don't want to pay the true cost of the work nor wait for it to be done right. So they're gonna get slop sometimes.
How can they possibly know what the planet is made of? Does anyone know?
Kindle Fire HD and Paperwhite sales make Amazon no profit
I'm interested to see if this is a move to increase revenue at Groupon.
Of course it does. What justification would they have for using a different name capitalisation for the product?
I can't believe people are actually willing to sign those kinds of agreements. If you can't sell you shares and the company can basically buy them back at will, the ownership is just theoretical. It's like getting monopoly money with the added clause that you may exchange it for real money if the owners get rich and want let you perform the exchange.

Please tell me that at least some companies have reasonable agreements with their employees/shareholders. Otherwise it's like someone else said a few months ago, Silicon Valley is just overrun with sleazy leadership types who do their best to screw over their employees.
Perhaps, though it seems like a lot of these responses fall in that category.

I'll say this - I used to work on this app day and night, and now I try and just do the part I enjoy the most, and leave most of it to expert developers and friendly support people. My focus is now on growing the platform, business development, and design work.
A critical thing to remember is that this can become very inefficient if you are using it in many places, as sass's implementation currently just pulls the media query repeatedly out of the current selector, rather than looking through and combining media queries into blocks for each resolution. The author left a super important comment on the article which you should use if you are actually planning on using this in production:

"You can get media query combining right now w/ sprockets using https://github.com/aaronjensen/sprockets-media_query_combine...
Exactly. For a login screen with a post that exalts the design, I thought it was a glaring usability mistake. Even a simple cue, 'Hit Enter to Continue' that appeared when the fields were being filled in, would up the usability. I know I won't look for it, but my mom would.
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It's common for sources of entertainment and/or information to be platform-specific.
I think many (if not the majority of) programmers are still using strongly typed programming languages.
But not something that an overly large number of users are going to have...
Hold the phone. This policy change is only so apps can't auto-publish to your friends' timelines. It doesn't say anything about auto-publishing to your timeline, which I imagine is still allowed.

An incremental improvement at best.. but still an improvement.
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That name doesn't quite work. Sounds more like a valley of con men in Chile, than the Chilean Silicon Valley.
That traversal doesn't traverse. It just skip list to entry->next and would keep resetting.

You could do something like this instead:

link = &((*link)->next);
Not to mention, diamond is only expensive because its rare and expensive to produce (and people tend to prefer to real thing...)

Once there is a lot of it, the price drops. Anyone remember the Futurama episode where they go to the gold planet?
@nowarninglabel I can agree to disagree with you. Analogies exist for a reason. I never claimed to be a buddhist monk. Seems to me that you're mixing the two up.

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Thanks. I find these full blown templates invaluable in prototyping.
Ask HN: Who do you support for president of the USA and why?
Pretty simple questions which I haven't seen asked here before. The 2012 election is almost upon us and I am curious to see everyone's opinions about all the candidates.
Drat, I leave on the 18th. If anybody wants to meet before then or organize a mini-soiree, drop me a line. I promise to be mildly, and only mildly, entertaining.

Alternately, you can try to stalk me at the regent street apple store. I'll be the American sitting in the theater not paying attention to the presenter.
It's very easy to make a Persona account, and, in my opinion, much better than having Facebook connect. I avoid FB Connect to the point that I will not sign up to a site with FBC if I can avoid it. If the site offers no other ways to log in, I will not use the site.

From what I have heard, I'm not alone in this.
To be fair though, your potential forgetfulness wouldn't be their fault. Sadly, I do see how it could be misconstrued though.
They might put a line underneath it saying, "Image provided by Gravatar"
Same issue on iPad 3 that has retina display
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Diamond is only rare because DeBeers keeps it that way. Raw diamonds are actually fairly common as far as gemstones go.
Bloom filters were in fact used.
I'm not arguing. I've been on both sides, and both sides suck.